Subject Speciality: Agriculture
Phone: 814-865-3706
Life Sciences Library
Helen Smith
Title: Agricultural Sciences Librarian
Subject Speciality: Agriculture
Phone: 814-865-3706
Life Sciences Library
Identify the articles and books:
LionSearch is a search engine that will provides fast, simple access to relevant material at the Penn State University Libraries. LionSearch provides an integrated search of the books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.
Tips:
Look at the Refine your Search section to select just scholarly articles, or different Content Types (book, journal article, ebook, newspaper article etc), Subject Terms, Locations, Years and Languages. You may have to click on more options to see a complete list.
Save the relevant sources into the LionSearch temporary folder by clicking on the small folder icon to right side of the item. When you are finished compiling your sources, click on the "saved items" link at the bottom of the screen and email or print (which allows you to copy into your clipboard) the references so you can easily add them to your project. Choose the APA format to have the citations correctly formatted for your project! CAVEAT: computer systems make mistakes when autoformatting. Double check your final paper against the APA Style.
Don’t lose your work! Items are saved in LionSearch ONLY for your current session. You won’t be able to go back later and see a list of saved items.
For full text items, when you click on the title you'll get to the Penn State "GetIt" menu. Just click on the bright yellow "full text" icon to go to the full text.
Additional Core Resources...
Get the full text
Once you find the citation, try the 
button to see if Penn State has the electronic or print version of the article you need. If the electronic version is available, it will appear as the first link on the Get it! menu. If the article is not available electronically, click on The CAT link to automatically search our catalog and see if Penn State has a print copy. If no other copy is available, you use the InterLibrary Loan link to request it from another library.
Use The CAT for finding books owned by Penn State.
CAT Search Tips: The CAT is the list of what is owned by Penn State Libraries.
Go to the Browse function if you are looking for a specific title or author (type last name first).
Go to the Keyword function and combine terms to search on a topic then use the subject headings from relevant books for additional search terms.
Write down the call number and location for any book you want.
For electronic books, click the words "online content" to access the full text.
Quick Guide to Searching the CAT (HTML version) or Quick Guide to Searching in the CAT(easy-print PDF version).
Learn how to refine your search with Savvy Searching in the CAT (html) or easy-print PDF version: Savvy Searching in the CAT.
Call Numbers: At University Park, most materials will be located on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor of Paterno Library. General call numbers and subject areas are:
Libraries Borrowing Policies
Once you have the books, check them out at the nearest lending desk or self check-out station. Loan periods are usually four weeks but books can be recalled for another user, so respond promptly to library notices. For more information see the University Libraries Lending Code.
UN Regional Commissions -- the regional commissions take the work of the UN and a focus it on specific areas of the world. All produce publications with information specific to their region. There are 5 Regional Commissions
Use AccessUN an index to the UN documents to see what they have published. Actual reports are available in microfiche in the Social Sciences Library [2nd floor Paterno Library].
See also the UN Millennium Development Goals
Specialized United Nations Agencies
Citing Your Sources
Plagiarism, whether you copy a paragraph from a book or cut and paste someone else's words from an e-mail, is a violation of Penn State's academic integrity policy. See this Definition of Plagiarism and Academic Integrity in Penn State's Plagiarism Tutorials.
When using information from another source you must give credit to the original author or you are plagiarizing. You give credit by citing the source. Make sure your citation contains everything you would need to backtrack and find the information again. Use the APA citation style for this class.
Search Tips
Combine Terms:
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Put it together:
Evaluating Resources for Content
To evaluate print sources and web sites, you should ask a series of questions concerning the source’s currency, authority, validity, intended audience and bias. See this How to Evaluate Information site for details.
